Avram Grumer
@avramg.bsky.social
Brooklynite, early blogger, general-purpose nerd, ttRPG noodle-arounder, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo finalist, occasional crank. He/him.
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Avram Grumer
@avramg.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hwæt! Aid for the free-trader, from all in hearing,
foemen besiege us, our fusion-oars failing,
gun-spool gone feeble, ship-breath escaping…
foemen besiege us, our fusion-oars failing,
gun-spool gone feeble, ship-breath escaping…
They say that in America, the streets are paved with gold!
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
They say that in America, the streets are paved with gold!
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God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
Can't help but wonder what happened here
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Can't help but wonder what happened here
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My favorite thing about culture is when artists who seem new and dangerous wind up decades later performing to universal cheers on the teenage mutant ninja turtles float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My favorite thing about culture is when artists who seem new and dangerous wind up decades later performing to universal cheers on the teenage mutant ninja turtles float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just learned that Ze’ev Jabotinsky was originally buried in a NY town called West Babylon, and his body was later moved to Jerusalem, and I can’t decide whether this is ironic or appropriate.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Just learned that Ze’ev Jabotinsky was originally buried in a NY town called West Babylon, and his body was later moved to Jerusalem, and I can’t decide whether this is ironic or appropriate.
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I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
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food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Charlie, son of Brown, that brought countless losses upon the baseball field. Many a brave kite did he feed to hungering trees, and many a football did he fail to kick.
Sing of human unsuccess, Charlie Brown
Many Who Die Deserve Life. Can You Give It to Them, Charlie Brown?
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Charlie, son of Brown, that brought countless losses upon the baseball field. Many a brave kite did he feed to hungering trees, and many a football did he fail to kick.
Whatever happens, she has got
A minigun, and she is hot.
A minigun, and she is hot.
I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.
( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Whatever happens, she has got
A minigun, and she is hot.
A minigun, and she is hot.
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man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Uh-oh
you ever start playing a new game and immediately realize you’re about to develop a horrible addiction? link unrelated
Subway Builder
Craft the subway system your city deserves
www.subwaybuilder.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Uh-oh
Zuck looks really awkwardly inhuman in this fake photo, and I don't know whether to take that as a sign that it's fake, or as something that the AI got right.
It's part of a trend of putting these guys in environments where billionaires would be unlikely to hang out.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Zuck looks really awkwardly inhuman in this fake photo, and I don't know whether to take that as a sign that it's fake, or as something that the AI got right.
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
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If you took a drink every time Pete Hegseth said "our warriors" or "warrior ethos" you'd still never be as drunk as Pete Hegseth.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you took a drink every time Pete Hegseth said "our warriors" or "warrior ethos" you'd still never be as drunk as Pete Hegseth.
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You cannot guess the topic that lead to this post
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You cannot guess the topic that lead to this post
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Filing away “Felch ain’t just a civil township in Michigan” for future use
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Filing away “Felch ain’t just a civil township in Michigan” for future use
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when the Lizza’s a Ryan, sex pesting he’s tryin’
when the -lizza be Chris, the point he will miss
when the -lizza be Chris, the point he will miss
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
when the Lizza’s a Ryan, sex pesting he’s tryin’
when the -lizza be Chris, the point he will miss
when the -lizza be Chris, the point he will miss